Robert L. “Bob” Baum

Attorney at Law

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He Provides Family and Business Law Services in Rockville, and all of Maryland and D.C.

Bob is a highly experienced family and business law attorney located in Rockville, MD but serving clients throughout the DMV region. He’s been helping clients resolve their disputes favorably in the fastest, most cost-effective way for more than three decades. Bob is also an author, teacher, nationally acclaimed lecturer on ADR practices. He is a divorced parent who has gone through the litigation and mediation process, and he has owned a small business in Hawaii so he has significant real first hand experience in matters of concern to you. He is also an innovator for new ADR practices in the DMV area. He was among the first to bring Collaborative Law to the region, and is now leading the way for mediation of guardianship, probate and other elder law matters. 

With experience in litigation, mediation, and arbitration, Bob can help you with all of your family and business disputes. Bob provides services ranging from simple uncontested divorces to helping to resolve complex multi-party business partnership and environmental mediation/facilitation matters.

When you hire Bob for your case, you’ll be working with a leader in the field. He has extensive experience in family and business law and as a parent coordinator. He’s an author, teacher, and nationally acclaimed lecturer on ADR practices. Bob is also a divorced parent who has gone through the litigation and mediation process, and he has owned a radio station in Hawaii.

Not only does Bob have extensive knowledge of family and business law matters, but he also has personal experience as well. Call the law office today to work with an attorney who can pull from training and personal knowledge to resolve your case.

Bob Memberships and Qualifications

Bob graduated from Dartmouth College with honors and from Washington University School of Law. He’s a member of the Maryland, California, and Washington, D.C. bars. Take a look at some of Bob’s additional qualifications:

• Founding member of the Maryland Collaborative Practice Council
  
• Founding member of the Collaborative Dispute Resolution Professionals
  
• Co-Chair of the Montgomery County Bar Association Alternative Dispute Resolution Section
  
• Former chair of the Maryland State Advisory Council on Medical Privacy and Confidentiality
• Former Vice-Chair of the Maryland Civil Rights Commission
  
• Maryland Mediation and Conflict Resolution Office (MACRO) committee member
  
• Of-counsel to Bromberg, Rosenthal, LLP, a prestigious Maryland law firm
  
• Served on the Maryland Medical Advisory Commission on Practice Parameters
  
• Attorney with Arent Fox Kintner Plotkin & Kahn and Dobrotvir and Gebhardt in Washington, D.C.

Bob was also appointed by former President Bill Clinton to several federal positions. He was appointed to direct the Office of Hearing and Appeals at the U.S. Department of the Interior, where he established the department’s ADR program. He also served on the U.S. Department of Justice’s ADR committee.

Bob served as a special assistant to the Secretary of the Interior for Dispute Resolution. He resolved numerous environmental and employment disputes. As the chief counsel to the United States Parks Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, another presidential appointment, Bob directed the litigation and settlement of a number of environmental and land use disputes.

Work with an attorney who’s in good standing with:

• The Supreme Court of the United States
  
• The Fourth Circuit and District of Columbia United States Courts of Appeals
  
• All Maryland courts
  
• The American Bar Association
  
• The Maryland State Bar Association
  
• The D.C. Bar
  
• The Montgomery County Bar Association
  
• The Association for Conflict Resolution
  
• The American Constitution Society
  
• The Maryland Collaborative Practice Council
  
• The Montgomery County Collaborative Dispute Resolution Professionals
• National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals

Contact the law office today to schedule your appointment.